Outside 25: Classic Tales and New Voices from the Frontiers of Adventure

by Hal Espen

Book Overview

Sebastian Junger goes whaling; Jon Krakauer solves the fatal mystery of a lost hiker; David Quammen tracks big, bad wolves in Romania; Ian Frazier profiles the world's wiliest mushroom hunter; Susan Orlean goes native with Maui's surfer girls; Bill McKibben crosses the disappearing finish line; Peter Maass endures free-fire zones in Sudan and Somalia; Mark Jenkins explores the soul of mountaineering; Hampton Sides runs wild with skiing's fastest man;...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393325032
• ISBN13: 9780393325034
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 624 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

GREAT COLLECTION

Highly recommended for travelers and everybody with a sense of wonder and adventure as the next best thing to being there.

Great collection of diverse adventures

Thirty five thrilling stories by the best adventure writers of our time. This is a collection of previously published articles from the last 25 years of "Outside Magazine". They have been chosen because they are all very good and cover a very wide spectrum of true life adventures. The great diversity is bound to please almost any reader, and I enjoyed them all immensely. Dancing on the Edge of an Endangered Planet

A Wealth of Adventure Literature

Outside's 25 is a broad collection of subject matter that has been published in the magazine during the last 5 years or so. While I enjoyed the entire book, some of the narratives were especially good.

Great Reading About the Outside World

Over the last decade or so "Outside" has repeatedly proven itself to be the magazine with the most compelling and well-written feature stories anywhere. For example, Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air" and Sebastian Junger's "The Perfect Storm" began as stories in the magazine. The definition of what constitutes an "Outside" article is very loose and there are stories here about animals, landscapes, extreme sports, exotic travels, and yes, even an ongioing Communist insurgency. "Outside" is the magazine you read if you want to know what is going on in the world around you beyond the insipid sniping of politicians and celebrity-obssessed news reports."Outside 25" collects nearly three dozen articles into a nearly 600 page volume that never lags for a second. Some of the "giants" of modern literature and journalism are here, including the aforementioned Krakauer and Junger, Peter Maas, Hampton Sides, Paul Theroux, Tim Cahill, Bob Shacochis and many others. The one thing ever piece has in common is a refusal to in any way to limit the imagination. The articles are almost all from the last five years, meaning that they are mostly still fresh and relevant.Overall, an outstanding and well thought out collection that even couch potatoes can enjoy.